What childish nonsense from the kids manning the ideological barricades of the digital revolution. Firstly, as Fred Turner shows so brilliantly in his seminal From Counterculture to Cyberculture,
Internet technology was "devised" and 'developed' in the Sixties by a
curious alliance of the American Cold War military-industrial 'state'
and by libertarian west coast hippies represented by counter-cultural
merry pranksters like 'Whole Earth Catalog' founder Stewart Brand.
Think of the Internet like an ideological map of California -
impossibly incorporating both the Reaganite south and its apparent
antithesis, the left-liberal north.

So, like a supposedly innocent child, the Internet is actually more complicated that it first appears....